How to reset the whole layout book revision / issue history?

[Leire Bilbao]

Hello!

We have different phases in the project, each one with its own revision / issue history.

The design phase with the client, then submission to authorities, then tender, construction, etc. When starting a new phase I need my revision history back to zero as we usually use the same file. The only way I know how to do this is reopening transmittal sets and delete them. That is extremely tedious when I have more than hundred transmittal sets.

Is it possible to reset to zero quicker?

[Laszlo Nagy]

Yes, unfortunately, the only way to do it is what you said: reopen the last Transmittal Set and delete it, then reopen the next last Transmittal Set and delete it, and so on.

[Leire Bilbao]

oh my... Is there a wish for it?

[ryejuan]

have you tried creating a new transmittal set instead of reopening?

my other concern about the transmittal set is the dates it cannot be modified if they want to use the old dates.

[Lingwisyer]

Have not tested this, but can you manually set the revision to a number / letter that has already been used? If you can, depending on how you are tracking them, you might be able to filter what is displayed based on a criteria.

That is a setting in the Revision History Detailed object that I use. If you can do something similar, it might be easier? It does mean retaining a whole lot of revision information which may or may not be a good thing.

Ling.

[Leire Bilbao]

Yeah, I guess I could change to letters instead of numbers and I could also duplicate the layouts and delete the issued ones. But that still keeps the revision history. Doesn't that men the file heavier? My files arre pretty big already 😞

[Leire Bilbao]

"have you tried creating a new transmittal set instead of reopening?"

The problem is I need to start all revision from zero for each phase. And that I have 100 revisions and want to reduce the size of the file

The dates are not a problem as I created a new property for the transmittal sets for the date and I put it manual so I can put any date I want

[Lingwisyer]

It does not allow you to duplicate revisions.

[Lingwisyer]

Yeah, it does mean all of your legacy revision and trasmittal information is retained...

[Barry Kelly]

I guess the logic is that these transmittals and revisions are supposed to be a permanent record of what has happened to the project, and they really should not be edited or manipulated.

But I can see it would be a problem if you were to use this project as a template to start a new one.

You would want the same file setup, but a clear list of transmittals/revisions.

Maybe one for the wishlist?

Barry.